Movies: John Canemaker

After learning about pollution a group of creatures called Zwibble Dibbles, decide to throw a party for the Earth to raise awareness....

Bonus feature on the Dumbo DVD....

The unlikely story of 106-year old Chinese American artist Tyrus Wong, and how he overcame poverty and racism in America to become a celebrated modernist painter, Hollywood sketch artist, and “Disney Legend” for his groundbreaking work on the classic...

Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of animation flowed from the pencils of two of the greatest animators The Walt Disney Company ever produced -- Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston. Frank and ...

It's Christmas Eve and all the children around the world are asleep and dreaming of the toys that Santa Claus will bring - except at the South Pole, where they've never celebrated Christmas. This year Santa Claus asks Santabear to deliver his toys to...

The life and career of the great cartoonist Winsor McCay is warmly recalled by his former film assistant, John Fitzsimmons, with clips of classic McCay animated films....

The year was 1941, and the world was on the brink of war. In an effort to improve relations between the Americas, the Roosevelt administration called upon one of Hollywood’s most influential filmmakers to embark on a special goodwill tour. Written an...

Documentary short on cartoonist Otto Messmer, co-creator of Felix the Cat...

In 1986, seventeen years after Yoko Ono and John Lennon’s animated conversation about love and six years after the beloved Beatle’s assassination, Ono commissioned independent animator John Canemaker to create a short animated film based on Lennon’s ...

An urban fable about a young street musician who finds competition for space to play his much a bit too tough, until he joins in the live-and-let-live attitude of the other street "freaks." An animated view of New York street life, with its spirited ...

A stop-motion film, written, animated, & directed by Dan Blank....

Blending the animation of Chuck Jones’ original drawings, traditional documentary elements, and one of Jones’ most intimate interviews before his death in 2002, this biography imaginatively brings to life the complicated and difficult childhood of t...

Documentary on the making of Walt Disney’s Fantasia....

A documentary about the early days of animation....

An animated documentary that explores the terrain of father/son relationships, as seen through Canemaker's own turbulent relationship with his father....

The film follows Wing Biddlebaum, a lonely former schoolteacher whose “hands” led to a scandal that drove him from his previous town and life’s calling....

A documentary on the making of Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp created for the 2006 Platinum DVD....

The essence of the 1940s, to the lively beat of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy." A rapidly paced collage of the fads, fashions, and personalities of wartime, from Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima, a time capsule of a special decade....

The making of Cinderella (1950)....

The making of Dumbo (1941)....